The mask of art
Subtitle: breaking the aesthetic contract--film and literature
By: Clyde R. Taylor.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: African Americans in motion pictures; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African Americans in literature; African American aesthetics
Description: Taylor exposes the concept of 'art' as a tool of ethnocentricity and radical ideology. He challenges the history of aesthetics as a recent invention of privileged Western consumerism and questions the myth of its ancient Greek origin.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.